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Taste of Home Ultimate Baking Cookbook: 575+ Recipes, Tips, Secrets and Hints for Baking Success

by Taste of Home

A broad, practical guide to home baking

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A broad, practical guide to home baking

This collection ranges from everyday staples—quick breads, biscuits and cookies—to more involved projects such as sourdough, bagels, layered cakes and pastries. Its chapter-by-chapter organization makes room for both recipes and foundational instruction: step-by-step guidance and how-to photos address techniques such as shaping rolls and preparing pie crust, while a reference section covers pan conversions, ingredient substitutions, common weights and recipe adjustments. The range gives home bakers a single volume spanning breads, sweets and baking basics, with topics arranged by type of bake.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Home bakers seeking recipes across breads, cookies, cakes, pies and pastries.
  • Beginners who want foundational baking guidance alongside recipes.
  • Experienced bakers interested in a broad reference for familiar and specialty bakes.

Themes

Home bakingBaking techniques and fundamentalsBreads and pastriesCakes, cookies and piesRecipe reference and conversions

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Book overview

Now more than ever, home cooks are flexing their baking muscle by preparing from-scratch breads, golden biscuits, wow-worthy cakes, snackable cookies and other sensational sweets. Whether you're a novice baker or a pro, this book has all the recipes, hints, tips and tricks you need to bake up an impressive specialty.



With Taste of Home Ultimate Baking Cookbook, you'll uncover the secrets today's home bakers rely on most. Want to bake crescent rolls like Grandma? Follow the how-to photos for the perfect result. Wondering how to make the perfect pie crust? See the step-by-step directions for sweet success. Want to learn how to master sourdough bread? We'll show you how, from sourdough starter to the perfect rise to the best bake. Entire chapters walk you through the basics of yeast and quick breads, cheesecakes, pies, bagels, brownies, coffee cakes, cobblers, cookies, cakes for every occasion and so many other favorites!

CHAPTERS

Baking 101 (Everything you need to know before you begin)

Yeast Breads
  • Loaf Breads
  • Egg Breads: Brioche & Challah
  • Foccacia
  • Dinner Rolls
  • Sweet Breads & Rolls
  • Sourdough Breads
  • Pizza Crusts & More (Bagels, Pretzels & Breadsticks)

Quick Breads
  • Quick Breads
  • Muffins
  • Soda Bread & Scones
  • Biscuits & Corn Bread

Cookies
  • Drop
  • Bar
  • Cutout
  • Sliced/Icebox
  • Shaped/molded
  • Biscotti

Brownies & Bars

Pies & Tarts
  • Pie crusts
  • Fruit Pies
  • Custard & Meringue Pies
  • Tarts & Galettes
  • Nut Pies & More

Cobblers, Crisps & Crumbles

Cakes
  • Layer Cakes
  • Sheet Cakes & Cake Rolls
  • Bundt Cakes/Pound cakes
  • Upside-Down Cakes & Skillet cakes
  • Chiffon
  • Cupcakes
  • Assorted Cakes (includes classic tortes)

Pastries & More
  • Breakfast Rolls & Pastries
  • Puff Pastry & Phyllo Dough
  • Coffee Cakes
  • Assorted Pastries

Icings, Glazes, Sauces & More

Baking Reference Guide
  • Cake-Pan Conversions
  • Ingredient Substitutions
  • Weights for common baking ingredients
  • How to cut down recipes
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